Some fantastic art. You will seriously think that these are photos and not paintings,

[TheBigotBasher]

Just one example - more here

http://www.cuded.com/2010/10/hyperreal-paintings-by-denis-peterson/


The picture that impresses me the most is the sitting man. Human faces when drawn almost always have something "false" about them, as everyone who plays computer games, even at very high resolution knows. I can not spot that on this picture.

[OneGrassRoot]

1. That is absolutely stunning!

Thanks for sharing this morning. :)

:hi:

[xchrom]

2. i've never liked photorealistic painting.

i think it's technically amusing -- but no there there.

[earthside]

7. I agree with you.

I suppose these types of paintings show the artist's skill ... but after that, then what?

[alfredo]

10. Precision sacrifices passion. The motivation of the hyper real

is to mind fuck the viewer. It looks real at first, but your mind knows that there is something a little off. If the artist can pull it off it is stunning. If not, buy a camera.

I didn't check to see the size of the paintings. If they are on huge canvases, the impact would be intensified. My first intro to hyper real was a ten ft tall painting of grasses. It was jaw dropping beautiful. She was doing macro photography with a paint brush. The strokes were very clean, very light. Very little texture at a close look. She must have been difficult to live with.

[NYC_SKP]

14. Compostion, subject matter choice, all indicate artistic selections.

Just as photographs themselves can be dramatic and inspiring as a result of these deliberate choices, so do photorealistic paintings succeed or fail on more than technical merit.

These are splendid.

NYC_SKP

[donco6]

15. Me too.

Obviously technically astonishing, but . . . I think a BW photo would have actually moved me more.

[Cass]

3. This is truly amazing work. The NYC street scenes are so real that I just cannot

wrap my head around the fact that they are paintings.

Thanks for sharing this with us!

[Samantha]

4. Extremely impressive

I really enjoyed looking at these. Thank you for sharing.

Sam

[w8liftinglady]

5. WOW...I am impressed.

as a pencil artist,I know the difficulty in obtaining this level of reality.My hat off to the artist

[ananda]

6. Wow.

Those are amazing pictures!

What city?

[geckosfeet]

8. Yes - super photo-realism takes the Chuck Close school another step

Looks like some interesting social commentary as well.

It is interesting to contemplate that the expressionists/impressionists felt that they were released from objective art because of the proliferation of photography. Rather than record their surroundings as they had done for centuries, painters were now able to explore the world of paint, color, texture and non-objective art in new ways.

[alfredo]

11. Right brain art.

I had a girlfriend that was ambidextrous. When she painted with her left hand her work was full of life and color. When she painted with her right it was precise and flat.

She was also an architect. She did all her mechanical drawings with her right hand.

[geckosfeet]

16. This kind of hyper-realism is very technical. The use of slide projectors

and projected grids is typical. I would not be surprised if the use of color and light meters was common as well.

[alfredo]

18. OCD art.

[ensho]

9. interesting - thanks for posting

nt

[jaxx]

12. The paintings are amazing.

I'd love to see them up close to see if there are brush strokes...it looks impossible. As a Deadliest Catch fan I liked that one...looked like the crabs were piled on the roof of the building.

[TheBigotBasher]

13. More hyperreal art

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/21-mindblowing-hyperreal


I had not even heard of this branch of modern art until today

[Odin2005]

17. I have a hard time believing they ARE NOT photos!

:wow:

[lunatica]

19. The thing that always strikes me about photorealistic paintings is

that they're painting of photographs, not the people or objects themselves. These painting are excellent in capturing the photographs, even to flattening the features with light the way the camera does. Everyone looking at these paintings is instantly aware that they look like photographs and that's the point.

It would be interesting to see how this artists would paint a living person with all the subtly of light on real skin